Why it may soon suck to be me....Oracle fundamental flaw...

[[JiF]Gib]

http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/rev ... 3?page=0,5" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I am NOT happy. We are a Fortune 15 company and we might be at risk..

oiy.

[[JiF]phantomx]

sorry to hear it dude (I'm in the same boat) . Don't mean to spoil your night but oracle is releasing more in there parched release. about 78 more critical patchs.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topic ... 66304.html

[[JiF]Sgt Shellshocked]

Oracle should have ditched their database product when they bought Digitals far superior RDB product now known as Oracle RDB, I'm using it right now and it's great.

[[JiF]zougathefist]

Hah - we have Oracle at work and I can confirm that it is (without wishing to offend) a rather large steaming pile of dung - at least in the configuration we have it. It is constantly failing and doing unexpected things. I hate it and avoid using it whereever possible, to the extent of printing stuff out and scanning it back later

[[JiF]Brick]

Glad I'm an SQL Server guy (as if it doesn't have it's own issues)

[[JiF]phantomx]

Oracle is nice for very large systems, but MS SQL I must say is a breeze compared. At least when MS SQL breaks you can usually fix it quite quickly, but Oracle....man when it breaks it breaks....

patching is a nightmare to for oracle. Not a simply run an exe and be done with it. Almost need a doctorate to do.

I am wondering if Oracle will open up it's patching to the public for this latest major breach. I know I am unable to get the patches for some of my clients because they stopped paying for the oracle support.

[[JiF]Sgt Shellshocked]

A good public domain dbms that can be used for large enterprises is Firebird (sprung out of Borland Delphis Interbase) check it out

[[JiF]Gib]

I agree, Im an Oralce DBA and a SQL Server DBA. I adore SQL server for its simplicity and easy to fix whereas Oracle is a freaking nightmare with everything and nothing really works as marketed. You hit it on the head, when it breaks, it breaks good....

One of our main products uses SQL Server and is terrabytes in size so we know/prove sql server works just fine for VLDB's. I'd LOVE to move to SQL Server but there would be things I miss, but MS's SQL Server overal the ease of management drives my preference If I have to work on it and get my hands dirty under the hood hell ya its a no brainer choice. Oracle sucks whenever I need to find out what the hell went wrong lol.

My boss replied back to our thread at work saying "here's the solution" and posteed a picture of SQL Server 2008.

LOL.

I checked all our SCN's today, we are not at risk(yet) and will be patching in Feb.

[[JiF]Uncle Stinky]

I understood about 20% of all that you guys said.

[[JiF][AARP]Tissueman]

I understood about 20% of all that you guys said.

This is the part I understood.

[[JiF]pop51]

What?

[[JiF][AARP]Grimp]

Let me sum it up. They get paid lots and lots of money to run software that has problems. They whine about it and make it sound hard to make more money. They use the money to buy ridiculously over-kill PCs and aim bots to play BF3 and kill us with Gigawatts of power watching giant high resolution monitors.
In reality if they all switched to software that did not break and was easy to use they would not make lots and lots of money.
Kinda like shooting the goose thingy or the Enron guys
Don't feel sorry for them

[[JiF]Gib]

lol Grimp. Nice to have you back to put things in perspective for us lol